Amendment of the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations

4.—(1) The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 9(2) (departure directions and persons in receipt of income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance or working tax credit) in the heading and in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c), (2)(a) and (b) and (3)(a), (b) and (c) after “income support” there shall be inserted “, state pension credit”.

(3) In regulation 12(3) (meaning of “benefit” for the purposes of Article 28E of the Order) after “income support” there shall be inserted “, state pension credit”.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 541; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 8 and S.R. 2003 No. 84; S.R. 1996 No. 541 is revoked, with savings, by regulation 33 of S.R. 2001 No. 20

(2)

Regulation 9 was substituted by regulation 9(3) of S.R. 1998 No. 8 and amended by regulation 6(2) of S.R. 2003 No. 84

(3)

Regulation 12 was amended by regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2003 No. 84